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Visiting Artists Series Fall 2004

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Studio Art Visiting Artists Series. Each year, internationally known artists visit the Department of Art and Art History to give lectures and to meet with graduate students for seminars and studio critiques. Each artist will be giving a slide lecture in the auditorium (ART 1.102) located next to the Blanton Museum, inside the ART building. Admission to the lectures is free and the public is cordially invited. In Fall 2003, the following three artists will conduct visits and give slide–lectures:

September 21 – 23: Dana Schutz.
Public Lecture September 21, 5pm, ART room 1.102.

Oil Painter Dana Schutz lives and works in New York City. Her work has been described as "teetering at the edge of tradition and innovation. Despite her utilization of orthodox points of departure such as narrative, portraiture, and surrealism, Schutz avoids falling into the thematic and stylistic trappings of those canonical formats, and thus manages to work just outside of expectation. This ability radiates from Schutz's lyrical and technical command of paint as both a medium and a pictorial object." – Kelly Taxer, Flash Art, October 2002

Schutz received a B.F.A. from the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, and an M.F.A. from Columbia University, New York, NY. Schutz has participated in solo and group exhibitions worldwide. She is a recipient of the 2003 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, New York, NY, and the 2002 Rema Hort Foundation Grant, New York, NY. Schutz is represented by the LFL Gallery in New York, NY.

September 28 – 30: Bridget Riley.
Public Lecture September 28, 5pm, ART room 1.102.

British Abstract Painter, Bridget Riley, is one of Britain's best–known artists. Of her paintings, she has commented, "the eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience frictions and ruptures, glide and drift…One moment there will be nothing to look at and the next second the canvas seems to refill, to be crowded with visual events."

Riley studied at Goldsmith's College of Art under Sam Rabin and at the RCA. She taught at Loughborough College of Art, Hornsey College of Art, and Croydon College of Art. She has held solo and group exhibitions worldwide, and the British Council and the Tate Gallery hold her work.

October 5 – 7: Mitch Epstein,
Public Lecture October 5, 5pm, ART room 1.102.

Photographer Mitch Epstein, a producer of photographic books, films, and video installations, was most recently celebrated for his work, Family Business (Steidl, 2003), a film and photographic project about his father and the demise of the family furniture store. His photographs have been widely exhibited and collected by major museums throughout the world. He has taught at Bard College, School of Visual Arts, Lacoste School of the Arts, and Harvard University. He has received awards and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York State Council for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He attended The Cooper Union, New York, NY, and Rhode Island School of Design, RI. He now lives in New York City.

November 4 – 5: Sarah Sze,
Public Lecture November 4, 5pm, ART room 1.102.

Sculptor Sarah Sze uses ordinary objects to create strikingly original sculptures and site–specific installations. Her intricate works, each of which she constructs by hand, consist of unexpected and carefully arranged combinations of materials, such as plastic plants, candies, packing materials, nails, small desk fans, aluminum ladders, and occasional drips of water. Sze transforms these everyday objects into gravity–defying works in horizontal and tower–like formations that zigzag into the heights of gallery spaces. Finding inspiration from architecture and art history, Sze creates exuberant installations that provide the viewer with a sense of wonder, visual pleasure, and a novel way to look at familiar space.

Sze received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She has had solo exhibits at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, and the Fondation Cartier, Paris. Sze has participated in group shows in venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, and the 48th Venice Biennial.